Lees was widely praised for her brutally honest account of her upbringing as a teenage boy called Byron in the "small-minded" town of Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, as well as for capturing the Y2K era in all its pre-internet nostalgia.

Now she is re-telling the story across an eight-part series, which will be directed by Chris Sweeney (The Tourist).

As Byron, Lees felt stuck in her small working-class town that was still struggling after the closure of its coal mine in the 1980s, and felt sick of her parents and being beaten up for "talkin' like a poof."

Looking for a way out, Byron escaped to Nottingham's kinetic underworld and discovered the East Midlands' hellraising podium dancer Lady Die, who adopted Byron into her family of troublemakers, "The Fallen Divas." Between them, they begged, dealt, and skanked their way through the UK's early 2000s club scene.

But the party didn't last, and when Byron was seduced by bad-boy Liam, something happened that changed life forever. "To find yourself," reads the synopsis, "sometimes you need to lose yourself."

Lees said: "I’m excited, hysterical, thrown and overblown with bliss, but most of all I’m just having so much fun bringing this universe to life in a visual medium. It’s a primal scream - from the depths of a council estate - against a world that would prefer people who don’t fit the norm didn’t exist.

"But we do and we’re not going away, we’re not apologising and we’re not shutting up. This is a deeply personal project and I’m thrilled to be working with the BBC and the team at Hera who have been so supportive of both me and my creative vision."

Filming for What It Feels Like For A Girl will take place in 2024, and it will air on BBC Three and iPlayer.